{"id":337,"date":"2011-09-28T22:30:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2013-10-26T22:08:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T02:08:18","slug":"london-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"London Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had an opportunity to travel to London on business.\u00a0 It has been several years since I last traveled to the U.K., so it was good to get back.\u00a0 London is an exciting and vibrant city, full of pedestrians and &#8220;buzz&#8221;.\u00a0 I always try to travel with my camera while on business should the opportunity afford itself to shooting, particularly when visiting abroad or somewhere new.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t always have time to shoot, but it&#8217;s well worth lugging my gear along just in case.<\/p>\n<p>One night our group went to eat at OXO Brasserie atop the OXO building next to the Thames.\u00a0 Knowing this was near the London Eye, I took my camera and tripod along.\u00a0 The group left for the hotel after dinner, but I stayed to walk around and photograph.\u00a0 I wandered around from 9pm-1am shooting and exploring &#8230; just my type of adventure!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of my favorites.\u00a0 I had never visited the eye before, and I had no clue that the adjacent County Hall would be lit with multicolored lights that change throughout the evening.\u00a0 What a nice treat.\u00a0 The London Eye was completed in 2000, and it was originally known as the Millennium Wheel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_338\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-338  \" title=\"London_008\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London_008-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London_008-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London_008-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London_008.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London Eye from across the Thames<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_339\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-339  \" title=\"London_020\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London_020-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London_020-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London_020-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London_020.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London Eye and County Hall<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had an opportunity to travel to London on business.\u00a0 It has been several years since I last traveled to the U.K., so it was good to get back.\u00a0 London is an exciting and vibrant city, full of pedestrians and &#8220;buzz&#8221;.\u00a0 I always try to travel with my camera while on business should the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,29,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}